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TFW2005.com board member Icepick is at it again as now he brings word of a $29.99 listing for Transformers Megatronus. Whether this figure is part of the Robots In Disguise line or the Combiner Wars / Generations line is not known, but you can view the listing below.

TFW2005.com board member Icespark has gone sniffing around the ToysRUs computer system and is reporting finding an entry for Masterpiece Bluestreak listed at $59.99. The figure does not have a release date and the document appears to be dated as the 9th Jan even though Icespark posted about it today.

According to a report by TFW2005 Board Member Icesparkas listing for Masterpiece Sunstorm has turned up in the US Toys R Us inventory systme with a code of 311207 and the name "TRA Sunstorm Masterpiece". The entry is priced at $74.99, the same as Acid Storm, though no release date has been mentioned.

TFW2005.com board member Deceptigtar has posted some images onto the US fansites message board of what appears to be an as yet unreleased testshot of a Transformers Prime Gears figure. The toy is a recolour of Transformers Prime Ratchet based on the Generation One Gears figure and is complete with a Mount Saint Hilary logo on.

Here is what Deceptigtar had to say regarding the images, which can be viewed below.

"I received these from a source to remain private, but we all saw this guys head in Ratchets instructions. To me it looks like it could be Gears, like the repaint we had in ROTF, it even has a Gear logo.

Could this also be another unreleased figure? Grain of salt people!

Oh and can anyone spot the G1 reference? The Mt. Saint Hilary in the Gear logo with the back of the Ark jets!"

TFW2005.com are reporting that the Transformers: Generations GDO Legion class figures, the "Asian exclusives", have now been released at retail stores within the US. The assortment which has been spotted thus far contains Bluestreak, Motorbreath, Thundercracker and Hoist and were sighted at the National City, CA Toys R Us by TFW2005 boards member Astroscream.

TFW2005.com board member Sasuke has posted some images of two items from the Universal Studios Hollywood store related to Transformers: The Ride. The first item is an "Energon themed commemorative cup" which you can get when you buy a cream soda. The cup has a light which flashes to try to make the drink look .... special. The 2nd item, which we have mirrored below, is a chocolate replica of the Allspark Cube from the Transformers movie!!

The Allspark are reporting that the Transformers Prime First Edition Vehicon and Bulkhead figures appears to be being distributed again within the US. There have been reportings of sightings of the toys on both ad the TFW2005.com, for the Vehicon and on The Allspark for Bulkhead.

Non-official Transformers manufacturer, TFC Toys, have updated their Facebook page with a new teaser image of their upcoming un-official Superion (not-Aerialbots) toy. The new preview image has been blurred but appears to be of Slingshot. The project, called Project: Uranus, had it's first preview image revealed durnig Botcon as a silhouette of the figures. you can view both preview images below.

More news for fans of the Cyberverse line. TFW2005.com board member Quegon has reported that the Optimus Maximus figure has now been released at retail within Singapore. The figure, who is a large transforming battle station, is available at Toys R Us stores.

TFW2005.com board members SydneyY and Masabon have posted a translation of an interview with TakaraTomy team producer Noriaki Maeda which was recently published within Figure King magazine.

The interview consists of five questions:

1. Firstly, looking back upon this year's Transformers series, what are your thoughts?
2. What were the popular items in 2011, or the product sold unexpectedly well?
3. What were the reactions to the MechTech weapon giveaways and MechTech campaigns?
4. Why did you resume "United" series at this point?

The intervie≠w explain why Arcee was released in a blue colour scheme as part of Darkside Moon in Japan, which was basically as a teaser for her appearance in Transformers: Prime to prepare the Japanese audience in advance. Being a motorcycle Transformer, she proved popular with Japanese children which was a bit of a surprise to the TakaraTomy staff

TFW2005.com report that the Asian exclusive ≠Transformers Dark of the Moon Ultimate Optimus Prime "Year of the Dragon Edition" has now been released.† Price at 999RMB the figure is a repaint of the†Ultimate Optimus Prime figure which comes with a red trailer sporting a gold dragon to represent the year of the dragon/

≠≠TFW2005.com board members SydneyY and Masabon have posted a translation of the interview with Koujin Oono that was published within the Transformers Generations 2011 vol.2 which you can read over on their website.

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Hasbro Inc submitted a trademark application for
FIRST AID
with the USPTO on the Tuesday, 2nd December 2003. The mark was submitted within the category
toy action figures, toy vehicles and toy robots convertible into other visual toy forms and currently has as status of Abandoned because no Statement of Use or Extension Request timely filed after Notice of Allowance was issued. To view all documents in this file, click on the Trademark Document Retrieval link at the top of this page..

Choose Your Fate
We loved the Transformers Choose Your Fate books as kids, and even wrote a text adventure in their style for an old version of Transformers At The Moon. Here you can find images from these puzzle-books, both UK and US ....

Ep 12: Dinobots Revealed
After defeating Meltdown the Dinobots reveal their true forms to Prowl, Bulkhead, Sari and Captain Fanzone. Grimlock, Snarl and Swoop transform for the first time and take their frustrations out on Cyrus Rhodes and the monsters. ....

OTFCC 2003 (USA)
We loved the Transformers Choose Your Fate books as kids, and even wrote a text adventure in their style for an old version of Transformers At The Moon. Here you can find images from these puzzle-books, both UK and US ....

US Sheet 1
The scans contained within this gallery are taken from our own Transformers toysheet collection. This is the first US Transformers toysheet. ....

Transformers Animated
The instruction scans contained within this gallery with the TF08.net watermark were originally from the Chinese TF08 website. They have been added here as a mirror. ....

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